{"id":1598,"date":"2016-02-19T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2016-02-19T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T05:15:03","slug":"wing-sung-659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Wing Sung 659!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3019.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon the Wing Sung 659 about a week ago on eBay while browsing Chinese pens after an annoying customer call (retail therapy. yeaaaah.). I was surprised to see this pen, since it looks pretty similar to the Pilot 78G, but I figured that for $9 with free shipping it was worth trying. Exactly a week later, it&#8217;s here!<\/p>\n<p>It arrived in a box with two nib\/feed\/collar units (one F and one EF) and a convertor. I love the look of ink sloshing around in demonstrators, so I picked up a tube of silicon grease and inked it as an eyedropper.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to be an exact match with the Pilot 78G &#8212; including fitting Pilot nibs. The Fine Wing Sung nib (I haven&#8217;t tried the EF yet) is very smooth though &#8212; it writes a little wetter (perhaps because it&#8217;s eyedroppered) but similarly to my Medium Metro.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, the build quality is good, but I did notice these two little bumps at the end of the section, but a couple swipes with a nail file smoothed things over! Now I don&#8217;t really see any remnants of cheaper manufacturing. (To be fair, I&#8217;m not looking very hard)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3023-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/img_3023-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was my first time &#8220;converting&#8221; a pen to an eyedropper, so I had a couple burps before realizing I needed to warm up the ink a bit with my hands. Since doing that, no more leaks! It&#8217;s definitely a wet writer, and on the wide side for a Fine, but great value (and neat looking) for $9, shipped.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, I want to try the EF nib and fill it with a brighter more visually interesting color&#8230; But I&#8217;ll save that for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon the Wing Sung 659 about a week ago on eBay while browsing Chinese pens after an annoying customer call (retail therapy. yeaaaah.). I was surprised to see this pen, since it looks pretty similar to the Pilot 78G, but I figured that for $9 with free shipping it was worth trying. Exactly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fountain-pens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}